Institute of Medicine (IOM). Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America. 2012. Note that this book can be purchased for approximately $70 or is available free online in .pdf format at: http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2012/Best-Care-at-Lower-Cost-The-Path-to-Cont... Students are encouraged to review the free online version rather than purchase.

Assignments, Grading and Homework

The course grade will be calculated from the average of 6 homework assignments (some in the form of on-line quizzes) and a standards project that will be hand-graded by the instructor.

Homework assignments (6) 50%Project #1 50%

An AMIA Certificate of Completion will be awarded to all students whose final total grade is 75% or greater.

This course will include hands-on learning exercises in the form of homework. The assignments might require narrative response (2-3 paragraphs) or might be in the form of an online quiz to assess the student’s ability to search and retrieve content from various coding systems. 6 total assignments are required for the final grade; 8 assignments will be offered, allowing students the option to miss a couple of assignments.

The homework assignments are designed to provoke thought about current standards issues, to build skills, and to define standards in specific areas of particular interest to each student. As such, each homework submission will reflect the interests and work of each individual student. Homework assignments should be completed individually, should reflect the efforts and thoughts of the submitting student (i.e., no group submissions or student collaboration on homework, please), and should not be shared with other students prior to submission date. There is valuable learning opportunity from sharing homework assignments with the class, so that students might learn from other students, and be exposed to new approaches, ideas, and contexts for implementing data standards. To ensure that everyone has the opportunity to complete their assignments free from influence of others, as well as maintain a sense of privacy and control, students will have the option to share submitted homework assignments by posting them on the Resource section or posting on the Discussion Forum *after the due date*.

Quiz-style homework assignments will consist of 5-10 questions and carry a total weight of 5 points. Narrative-style homework assignments will be graded on a 5 point scale and grades/comments will be recorded by the instructor in Sakai prior to the next class.

HOMEWORK POSTING: Students should submit Homework assignments via the “assignments” tab of the Sakai (or Sakai-like) online learning platform administered by Duke University. In addition, students are encouraged to post their narrative homework assignments to the Discussion form, and review and comment on other students’ homework postings.

CLARIFICATION ON ASSIGNED READINGS:

Students will be provided with weekly reading assignments. Students having difficulty understanding topics presented in the assigned reading are encouraged to seek out additional sources of information that may be outside of the assigned and supplemental readings. The instructor will be available for questions, either by telephone or e-mail. If you find other good references for class topic areas, please share with instructors and the other students using the discussion forums in Sakai.

There is a heavy amount of required and optional reading for the course. Many of the assigned readings are quite long. Students are encouraged to preview the readings and thoughtfully determine whether or not there is value in printing them. (In most cases, I suggest that there is not.) Many of the readings are meant to be skimmed, allowing the reader to see the scope and components to the reading topic. Within each reading or set of readings there will be areas of greater interest and importance, depending upon each student’s background and career and learning objectives. Students should listen to guidance in lectures and discussion regarding important points from each reading. Also, it should be noted that because there are no exams, the assigned and suggested readings should be considered as resources rather than documents to be memorized or studied. As with any course, you get out what you put in. In that regard, students that address all of the readings will reap more knowledge and insight. However, the assessment for the class is based on skills, homework assignments and projects, so students should take the readings in the spirit of understanding the breadth, depth, and dynamic nature of data exchange models and standards.

Accreditation Statement

The American Medical Informatics Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation Statement

The American Medical Informatics Association designates this enduring material for a maximum of 49.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Estimated Time Expected to Complete Activity

Estimated time to complete this activity: 49.5 hours.

Criteria for Successful Completion

Completion of this enduring material is demonstrated by scoring at least 75% on the homework assignments, any quizzes, and the completion of one course project.

Commercial Support

No commercial support was received for this activity.

Disclosure Policy

As a provider accredited by the ACCME, AMIA requires that everyone who is in a position to control the content of an educational activity disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest for 12 months prior to the educational activity.

The ACCME considers relationships of the person involved in the CME activity to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.

Faculty and planners who refuse to disclose relevant financial relationships will be disqualified from participating in the CME activity. For an individual with no relevant financial relationship(s), the participants must be informed that no conflicts of interest or financial relationship(s) exist.

AMIA uses a number of methods to resolve potential conflicts of interest, including: limiting content of the presentation to that which has been reviewed by one or more peer reviewers; ensuring that all scientific research referred to conforms to generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, and analysis; undertaking review of the educational activity by a content reviewer to evaluate for potential bias, balance in presentation, evidence-based content or other indicators of integrity, and absence of bias; monitoring the educational activity to evaluate for commercial bias in the presentation; and/or reviewing participant feedback to evaluate for commercial bias in the activity.

Instructions for Claiming CME Credit

The instructor will send a list of all participants who satisfied course requirements to AMIA. Participant will communicate with Susanne Arnold, Education Program Manager, susanne@amia.org, about completing the evaluation and receiving the CME certificate.

CME site (MyAMIA) works best with IE 8 or above version, Chrome, and Firefox.

Login to the AMIA site; click on AMIA Central.

Go to “My Events" under Membership/Activities

Click “Apply for Credits" link for meeting or event you attended.

Follow the instructions on the Credit Registration page.

Physicians: Be sure that "Physician" shows in the two drop-down boxes.

Physicians may print out the certificate, go to "My CME/CE credits" under Membership/Activities.

Other attendees: if you require a certificate of participation, please contact pesha@amia.org

Hardware/Software Requirements

A computer with an Internet connection.

Internet Explorer 8 or higher, Firefox 4.x or higher, Safari 2.x or higher, or any other W3C standards compliant browser

HTML5-capable browser for video or audio play or download

Additional software such as PowerPoint® or Adobe Acrobat Reader software

Contact Information

For questions about the 10x10 course please contact Susanne Arnold, Education Program Manager at susanne@amia.org or (301) 657-1291.